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Arthur Leslie Lydiard ONZ OBE (6 July 1917 – 11 December 2004) was a New Zealand runner and athletics coach. He has been lauded as one of the outstanding athletics coaches of all time and is credited with popularising the sport of running and making it commonplace across the sporting world.
North Shore City, New Zealand 4 × 100 m relay: 38.99 New Zealand Dallas Roberts David Falealili James Dolphin Chris Donaldson: 19 November 2005 [e] Sydney, Australia 4 × 200 m relay: 1:23.82 Donald McDonald Dallas Roberts Gene Pateman Craig Bearda 25 January 2004 North Shore City, New Zealand 4 × 400 m relay: 3:05.84 New Zealand Shaun ...
The idea of jogging as an organised activity was mooted in a sports page article in The New Zealand Herald in February 1962, which told of a group of former athletes and fitness enthusiasts who would meet once a week to run for "fitness and sociability". Since they would be jogging, the newspaper suggested that the club "may be called the ...
New Zealand also sent teams for the Australasian Athletics Championships during its lifetime from 1890 to 1927. Separate annual championship events are held for the 10,000 metres , 3000 metres , combined track and field events , cross country running , mountain running , road running and racewalking events.
Athletics New Zealand (ANZ) is the national governing body for athletics in New Zealand. This includes responsibility for Track and field , cross country running , road running and racewalking . [ 1 ]
Competitors included Running, The Runner and Running Times, which eventually merged in various forms. Jim Fixx published The Complete Book of Running in 1977, which became a best seller. [36] George Sheehan wrote Running and Being in 1978, a philosophical approach which also became a best seller. [37] Other running authors and writers: Bob Anderson
Early in 1980 at Stanford Stadium Quax missed Jos Hermens' 15 km world record by five seconds, running a New Zealand national record of 43:01.7. [4] In his later career Quax switched his focus to the marathon, running 2:11.13 in his debut for 4th place at the Nike OTC Marathon in 1979, at that time the fastest debut marathon in history. [5]
In July 2022, he became the third fastest 800m New Zealand athlete in history, behind Peter Snell and John Walker, when he ran 1:45.30 in Germany. [ 6 ] In February 2023, Preston won the 800m at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold Meet in Melbourne in a world-leading time. [ 7 ]